A customer reported that Explorer appears to be ignoring the seconds when sorting by Date Modified. The customer was kind enough to include detailed steps to reproduce the problem. Start with a folder with several files, sorted by Date Modified. Right-click on the newest file, select Copy. Right-click on the blank column on the right, select...
Cheong wonders why there isn't a way for the Maximize button to maximize a window across multiple monitors. (Troll asks a similar question: Why doesn't Windows support spanned mode for multiple monitors?) We tried it that way at first. And we quickly discovered why it was a bad idea. Wait, I'm not finished yet. Things get still worse if your ...
Some time ago, Ry Jones gave some examples of Quotable Raymond, including the following: How to make a good doc bug report: 1. Don't embed pictures. ... This isn't Highlights magazine. What Ry didn't realize is that his "..." totally misrepresented the message. There were actually two separate items, but he combined them into one and rep...
Given that you have a Win32 dialog box with static text in an control, how do you make it so that users can easily copy that text to the clipboard? The traditional solution is to create a borderless read-only edit control (which draws as static text by default). Add it to the tab order by setting the style, and maybe even give it a keyboard a...
